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Chapter Eleven

Pricing Strategies

Pricing Strategies

• New-Product Pricing Strategies

• Product Mix Pricing Strategies

Topic Outline

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• Product Mix Pricing Strategies

• Price Adjustment Strategies

• Price Changes

New-Product Pricing Strategies

• Market-skimming pricing

• Market-

Pricing Strategies

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• Market-penetration pricing

New-Product Pricing Strategies

Market-skimming pricing is a strategy with high initial prices to “skim” revenue layers from the market

• Product quality and image must support the price

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• Product quality and image must support the price

• Buyers must want the product at the price

• Costs of producing the product in small volume should not cancel the advantage of higher prices

• Competitors should not be able to enter the market easily

New-Product Pricing Strategies

Market-penetration pricing sets a low initial price in order to penetrate the market quickly and deeply to attract a large number of buyers quickly to gain market share

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quickly to gain market share

• Price sensitive market

• Inverse relationship of production and distribution cost to sales growth

• Low prices must keep competition out of the market

Product Mix Pricing Strategies

Pricing Strategies

Product line pricing

Optional-product pricing

Captive-product pricing

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pricing pricing

By-product pricing

Product bundle pricing

Product Mix Pricing Strategies

Product line pricing takes into account the cost differences between products in the line, customer evaluation of their

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line, customer evaluation of their features, and competitors’ prices

Optional-product pricing takes into account optional or accessory products along with the main product

Product Mix Pricing Strategies

Captive-product pricinginvolves products that

must be used along with the main product

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the main product

Two-part pricing involves breaking the price into:

– Fixed fee

– Variable usage fee

Price Mix Pricing Strategies

By-product pricing refers to products with little or no value produced as a result of

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little or no value produced as a result of the main product. Producers will seek little or no profit other than the cost to cover storage and delivery.

Price Mix Pricing Strategies

Product bundle pricing combines several products at a reduced price

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products at a reduced price

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Discount and allowance

pricing

Segmented pricing

Psychological Promotional

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Psychological pricing

Promotional pricing

Geographicpricing

Dynamic pricing

International pricing

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Discount and allowance pricing reduces prices to reward customer responses such

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prices to reward customer responses such as paying early or promoting the product

• Discounts

• Allowances

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Segmented pricing is used when a company sells a product at two or more

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company sells a product at two or more prices even though the difference is not based on cost

Price-Adjustment Strategies

To be effective:

• Market must be segmentable

• Segments must show different degrees of

Pricing StrategiesSegmented Pricing

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• Segments must show different degrees of demand

• Watching the market cannot exceed the extra revenue obtained from the price difference

• Must be legal

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Psychological pricing occurs when sellers consider the psychology of prices and not simply the economics

Reference prices are prices that buyers carry in

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Reference prices are prices that buyers carry in their minds and refer to when looking at a given product

– Noting current prices

– Remembering past prices

– Assessing the buying situations

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Promotional pricing is when prices are temporarily priced below list price or cost to increase demand

• Special event pricing

• Cash rebates

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• Cash rebates

• Low-interest financing

• Longer warrantees

• Free maintenance

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Risks of promotional pricing

• Used too frequently, and copies by competitors can create “deal-prone”

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competitors can create “deal-prone” customers who will wait for promotions and avoid buying at regular price

• Creates price wars

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Geographical pricing is used for customers in different parts of the country or the world

• FOB-origin pricing

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• FOB-origin pricing

• Uniformed-delivered pricing

• Zone pricing

• Basing-point pricing

• Freight-absorption pricing

Price-Adjustment Strategies

• FOB-origin (free on board) pricing means that the goods are delivered to the carrier and the title and responsibility passes to

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and the title and responsibility passes to the customer

• Uniformed-delivered pricing means the company charges the same price plus freight to all customers, regardless of location

Price-Adjustment Strategies

• Zone pricing means that the company sets up two or more zones where customers within a given zone pay a single total price

• Basing-point pricing means that a seller

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• Basing-point pricing means that a seller selects a given city as a “basing point” and charges all customers the freight cost associated from that city to the customer location, regardless of the city from which the goods are actually shipped

Price-Adjustment Strategies

• Freight-absorption pricing means the seller absorbs all or part of the actual

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seller absorbs all or part of the actual freight charge as an incentive to attract business in competitive markets

Price-Adjustment Strategies

Dynamic pricing is when prices are adjusted continually to meet the

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continually to meet the characteristics and needs of the individual customer and situations

Price-Adjustment Strategies

International pricing is when prices are set in a specific country based on country-specific factors

• Economic conditions

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• Competitive conditions

• Laws and regulations

• Infrastructure

• Company marketing

objective

Price Changes

• Price cuts

• Price increases

Initiating Pricing Changes

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• Price increases

Price ChangesInitiating Pricing Changes

Price cuts occur due to:

• Excess capacity

• Increased market share

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• Increased market share

Price increase from:

• Cost inflation

• Increased demand

• Lack of supply

Price Changes

Price increases

Price cuts

Buyer Reactions to Pricing Changes

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• Product is “hot”• Company greed

• New models will be available

• Models are not selling well

• Quality issues

Price Changes

Questions

– Why did the competitor change the price?

– Is the price cut permanent or temporary?

Responding to Price Changes

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– Is the price cut permanent or temporary?

– What is the effect on market share and profits?

– Will competitors respond?

Price Changes

Solutions

– Reduce price to match competition

– Maintain price but raise the perceived value

Responding to Price Changes

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– Maintain price but raise the perceived value through communications

– Improve quality and increase price

– Launch a lower-price “fighting” brand

Price Changes

Responding to Price Changes

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